Saturday, May 14, 2016

A BIT OF EXCITEMENT IS ALWAYS WELCOME AT THIS STAGE OF THE GAME

TRILLIUM

With our air temperature hovering in the mid 30’s & a cold rain upon us our morning’s wind chill factor drove temperatures even lower & it was definitely not an outside day for Pheebs & I. Poor little Spoogers just doesn’t understand why we aren’t out the door with cameras in hand & headed for the Jeep. She’s been lying around the house with the saddest look on her face & anytime I get near the front door she races right up behind me thinking, ‘Oh Boy Oh Boy Oh Boy me & my Dad are finally going out somewhere’.

My room painting is done & the next step will be having the berber carpet installed in a week or so. Richard will do the room trim after that which will complete phase 1 of our project. Next on the list will be to have or old money guzzling electric furnace replaced with a new more cost effective gas furnace. After that we rip the old original carpet out of Kelly’s bedroom & replace it with new. Somewhere in the mix I will help Richard put a second window in Kelly’s bedroom (we got the window free) & last but not least we will replace the old cheap carpet in our sunroom. Busy times ahead but I enjoy having home improvements done & the upgrades we are doing now are long overdue. It’s the kind of bee hive activity I usually don’t mind too much. A lot of organizing to do & organizing can generate a bit of excitement & a bit of excitement is always welcome at this stage of the game:))

GROANER’S CORNER:(( This is the story of a blonde flying in a two-seater airplane with just the pilot . He has a heart attack and dies . She, frantic, calls out a May Day .”May Day! May Day! Help me! Help me! My pilot had a heart attack and is dead . And I don’t know how to fly . Help me! Please help me!” She hears a voice over the radio saying: “This is Air Traffic Control, and I heard you loud and clear . I will talk you through this and get you back on the ground . I’ve had a lot of experience with this kind of problem . Now just take a deep breath . Everything will be fine! Now give me your height and position” She says, “I’m 5’4″ and I support Donald Trump . . ” “O . K . ” says the voice on the radio . . . . “Repeat after me: Our Father Who Art in Heaven”

AL'S CAMERA EQUIPMENT

A sometimes asked question readers have about my blog is what kind of a camera do I use. Well I have 5 of them and use all 5.

'UPDATE':: July 2017 Thanks to a very generous blog reader I have been able to update my Nikon camera equipment and supplement my camera gear with a couple additional fine Sony cameras as well.I now have a Nikon D7200 sporting a new Nikkor 18-300 3.5 zoom lens. Also have picked up a new Nikkor 1.8 primary 35mm lens. In addition I also now have a Sony RX100-3 camera as well as a Sony Exmore Cybershot. I have given my Canon Powershot point and shoot camera to a neighbor.

- In early 2017 I replaced my Nikon D-90 camera with a new D-3400 after the 'auto focus' feature on my aging D-90 quit working. The Nikon D-90 had been my work horse camera sporting a Nikkor 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 lens. I used this camera for most of my landscapes and I now have it set up for night photography where 'auto focus' is not necessary.

-My older faithful and favorite Nikon D-40 finally packed it in during the summer of 2015 and I replaced it with a new Nikon D-3100 which now carries my Nikkor 70-300mm 1:4.5-6.6 lens. I use this camera & lens for most of my candid people photos, birds, animals, bugs & flower close-ups.

- Previous to my Nikon D-90, most of my photos were taken with my old faithful Nikon D-50 from 2006 to early 2011 whereupon the D-50 suffered a rather gruesome death when it fell off a table onto a cement porch in southeastern Arizona. The 70-300mm lens on the camera survived the fall but the D-50 did not. My Nikkor lenses are interchangable between the D-90 the D-3100 and the D-3400.

-My Canon Powershot SX210iS is a point & shoot camera which I carry in a case on my belt everywhere I go.-My older Canon Powershot A720iS is the camera that sits close to my recliner for most of those doggy living room photos.